OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 28, 4 February 1943, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE

“Tin Pan Alley,” starring Alice Fay< and Betty Grable, screens finally al the Opera House to-day. In this mu»i cal those great song hits which in spired just prior to World Wai . art brought back to memory. “Suspicion.” I Presenting a vivid and unforget I table story oi a woman wnose trouulec I mind leads her to suspect tnat hei l husband is a murderer, ‘Suspicion,’ which screens at the Opera House to. I morrow, stars Cary Grant and Joa: .Fontaine in what is said to be one o: I the most gripping ana unusual ro imantic dramas ever seen on th< I screen. Grant enacts the role ot ■ reckless young wastrel, Johnnie Aysgarth, and Miss Fontaine that of Lint McLaidlaw, quiet ana imaginaGvt daughter of a wealthy retired general. Fascinated by Johnnie’s charm Una succumbs to nis whirlwind wooing and elopes with him—only to learr that he hasn't a shilling and that he's been living on borrowed money foi years. At ner horrified protests, Johnnie indulgently agrees to go to work. Lina is happy, but not for long. Soon she learns that Johnnie has been at the races instead of working, and that he has pawned her wedding present from her father, that he has been discharged for apparent embezzlement. With all this, she still loves him, accepts his excuses and his devotion. But when she hears of th* mysterious death of Thwaite, his best friend, under circumstances that point, indirectly at least, to Johnnie as his murderer, Lina is frightened, and this is the beginning of a breathless series of suspicious happenings.